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Oxford Preservation Trust and Oxford University welcome you Hidden Oxford to our annual Festival of Oxford, a weekend when we Start your weekend by visiting Go underground at Old County Hall to explore the grim tunnel to Oxford Castle. celebrate the city – its places, spaces and, most of all, its people the OPT Team at their Hub in Cornmarket for information about Check the listings for A Plan Insurance, Payne & Son and 126 High “The University is full of wonderful places and Oxford the weekend. Street - very hidden Oxford. Also don’t Open Doors is our opportunity to share some of our Visit the Cohen Quad on Saturday & forget to come and see OPT at the hidden treasures more widely. We look forward to Sunday, a new building hidden behind an Painted Room in Cornmarket with its rare wall paintings and Shakespeare welcoming a record number of people to explore our old façade or explore the Fellows Garden at Exeter College on Sunday with and Betjeman connections. wonderful buildings, gardens and collections.” stunning views of the Radcliffe Camera. Round the weekend off on Professor Louise Richardson, One of the most iconic buildings Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford Sunday at 4pm with a concert in Oxford and rarely open, climb at the Sheldonian Theatre the Radcliffe Observatory over the weekend for amazing views and performed by the Pavlova Wind Quintet. “Oxford Preservation Trust love organising Oxford architecture, and step behind closed doors to explore the libraries at Open Doors as it gives everyone the chance to share in Magdalen, Trinity, All Souls and Oxford’s wonderful places and spaces. This year’s theme University Colleges. of ‘Hidden Oxford’ has encouraged our many partners On Saturday enjoy a trip to Nuneham to open lots of doors, old and new. We thank them, and Courtenay and visit the Arboretum, 40 40 To celebrate 40 years of the our many volunteers, who help make the weekend so the Chapel and Gardens of Nuneham 4 Oxford Preservation Trust special. Have a great time.” Park, and a very rare chance to walk to Awards we've chosen projects the Carfax Conduit. Debbie Dance, to showcase from across the Director of Oxford Preservation Trust There is much to be seen at the Bodleian years. Choose your favourite at this year with a special photographic www.oxfordtimes.co.uk and enter our draw for the chance to win two Oxford Open Doors is organised by Oxford Preservation Trust (OPT), in exhibition at the Weston Library and tickets to our very special OPT partnership with the University of Oxford. It is free with thanks to our partners, don’t miss the ‘Revealing Hidden Oxford’ Awards Evening. volunteers, supporters and the places and people who open their doors. display at the Old Bodleian Library as well as ‘A Day with Miss Austen’ OPT receives no government funding and is supported by members’ subscriptions, (Sunday only). New for this year is the sponsorship and donations. opening of the Taylor Institution Library Also... Learn more about the work A special thanks to: The Gresswell Environment Trust on Saturday but don’t forget to book. of the University of Oxford and visit their Information Fair at For more details & events, check Barton Neighbourhood Centre individual venue listings & visit on Saturday. www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk

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Purchase our special OPT Proud supporters of Some fun for the weekend... Oxford mug designed by Emma Bridgewater from our hub in Cornmarket – OPT members get Oxford Open Doors 2017 £5 off over the weekend. Great places Mathews Comfort insurance brokers and n Museums Ecclesiastical Insurance are delighted to n Galleries to picnic support this event showcasing the beautiful n Libraries Christ Church Meadows, St Aldates buildings of Oxford. Together, we provide * n Educational establishments Iffley Glebe Field expertise and service excellence to meet the * Oxford Castle Quarter (the Exercise Yard) insurance needs of exceptional properties. n Historical and contemporary * buildings * University Parks, South Parks Road

* Discover the hidden Painted Room in Cornmarket – Sat & Sun * Take a trip to Iffley and see the Church & Village Hall – Sat & Sun * Scale the Castle Mound at Oxford Castle Unlocked & meet the Archaeologists in the for the Key Learning Centre – Sat & Sun Fun Tour Oxford Castle Unlocked – Sat & * Sun 9am to 11am * Don’t miss a trip to Magdalen and family University Colleges – Sat & Sun * Hunt the Hidden Animals at Harris Manchester College Chapel – Sat only To find out how Mathews Comfort and * Handle historical coins at the Ashmolean – Ecclesiastical can help you visit: Sat only www.mathewscomfort.co.uk * Enjoy ‘A Day with Miss Austen’ at the www.ecclesiastical.com Family Bodleian – Sun only * Go underground at Old County Hall in Trail... New Road – Sat & Sun & “meet the Collect from the OPT team military” – Sat only We hope you have a great day exploring hub in Cornmarket & follow There is plenty of fun to be had at Rewley the trail & see what you find... * Ecclesiastical Insurance Office plc (EIO) Reg. No.24869 is registered in England at Beaufort House, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, Road Fire Station – Sat & Sun GL11JZ, UK and is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. See venue listings for further details Mathews Comfort & Co Ltd are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Authorisation number 307605. and look for FF (Family Friendly) Registered address: 6 St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1DL

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Don't miss out! Oxford Castle Unlocked, Oxford Oxford Preservation Trust Visit our website and Castle Quarter, OX1 1AY – Sat & enter the members Sun 9am to 11am Experience the rich Members Only Events ballot for a tour of the Radcliffe Camera on history of Oxford Castle with free entry Monday 4 Sept via guided tours (first come first served). Tuesday 26 Sept, 2.30pm. Climb the Saxon St George’s Tower, OPT Awards Winners Tour (2016) – 2pm Led by descend to the Norman Crypt and Architectural Historian and OPT Trustee, Geoffrey explore the original cells. OPT members Tyack. A unique chance to see some amazing get free entry all day! (D), FF, R - Sat Oxford buildings from the old to the new. 10am to 5pm & Sun 10am to 4pm Tuesday 5 Sept Climb the mound of the 11th Century All Souls College, High Street, OX1 4AL – motte-and-bailey castle and see the 13th 4.30pm Beat the crowds before the weekend Century well chamber. FF, R for the tour of this magnificent College with Venues its striking twin towers by Hawksmoor and ‘Revealing Hidden Oxford’ Display, The Proscholium to the Old Bodleian famous Codrington Library. (D) Library, Old Schools Quad, Catte Street, Wednesday 6 Sept OX1 3BG – Sat 9am to 4.30pm & Sun Join us at: The Painted Rooms, 3 Cornmarket & 118 The Painted Room, 3 Cornmarket, 11am to 5pm Hidden from view for High Street – 2.30pm A special opportunity OX1 3EX – Sat & Sun 10am to 4pm Visit decades, find out more about Oxford City THE COHEN QUAD to see not one but two different buildings with this hidden gem with remarkably well- Council’s archive of City Engineer's Plans. preserved Elizabethan wall paintings, rare Elizabethan wall paintings! Join us to previously the Crown Tavern with learn more of their history. Shakespeare & Betjeman connections. Thursday 7 Sept Formerly the offices of OPT. FF Nuffield College, New Road, OX1 1NF – 2.30pm LMS Swingbridge, Rewley Road, OX1 Explore Nuffield’s outstanding art collection with 2RQ – Sun 1pm to 3pm Learn about Chairman of the Art Committee, Richard Mayou. this unique and nationally important See pieces rarely seen and visit the Tower Room (c.1851) hand-turned railway swing with stunning views over Oxford and beyond. bridge and our plans to save it. (Walk Friday 8 Sept with David Mather on Sun 11am – advanced booking required) FF The Cohen Quad, Walton Street, OX1 2HE – 4.30pm The RIBA Lecture with award winning ALL SOULS COLLEGE Iffley Glebe Field, Church Way, OX4 Architect, Alison Brooks – ‘Future Heritage: 4EJ – Sat 11am to 5pm & Sun 1pm Collegiate Architecture for the 21st Century’. Please book by emailing ST GEORGE’S TOWER to 5pm A great place to take a picnic Not to be missed! D info@oxfordpreservation. and also enjoy the beautiful thatched org.uk or call 01865 242918. Village Hall & Norman Church famous Come and meet the OPT team Not a member? Join now to enjoy these exclusive events by for its Romanesque architecture. D, FF at our hub in Cornmarket. visiting www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk

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Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, OX2 6DP - 11am & 2pm Tours OUP’s Museum, tracing over 500 years of University publishing, Thursday including the first edition of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and publication of ‘The Friday Oxford English Dictionary’. Advanced 7 SEPT booking required. D, R 8 SEPT NIHR, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Old Museum of Oxford, Oxford Town Road, Headington, OX3 7LE - Bodleian Law Library, Manor Road, Hall, St Aldates, OX1 1BX - 2pm 10.30am & 12.30pm Tours Guided OX1 3UR - 3pm & 5pm Tours (Also Memory Lane: A drop-in reminiscence historical tour through the World Sat.) The largest law library in the UK, group for older people exploring the War II era hospital into the new 21st housed in a landmark modern building fascinating history of the Holywell area century health facility. Advanced by Leslie Martin and Colin St John of Oxford City, including the Holywell booking required. D, R Wilson, completed in 1964 and now Music Room and Cemetery. D, R OXFORD TOWN HALL listed as Grade II*. Advance booking NIHR, Oxford Biomedical Research Osney Mill, Mill Street, OX2 0AN - 11am required. D Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Tour Visit the restored mill & marina, the Headley Way, Headington, OX3 Cherwell Boathouse, 50 Bardwell remains of Osney Abbey built in 1410 and 9DU - 4pm & 4.45pm Tours Behind Road, OX2 6SS - 10am to 12 noon - the Archimedes Screw that powers the the scenes tour of an internationally A celebration of the art of punting at site. Advanced booking required. D unique facility that is dedicated to this authentic Edwardian boathouse clinical research in heart attacks and and long established fine dining Oxford University Press, Great Strokes. The facility is called the Acute restaurant on the River Cherwell. Test Clarendon Street, OX2 6DP -11am Vascular Imaging Centre (AVIC). your punting skills with a free half hour Tour OUP’s Museum, tracing over Advanced booking required. D, R 500 years of University publishing, trial with Boathouse staff onside to give including the first edition of ‘Alice in expert tips and advice. Said Business School, Park End Wonderland’ and publication of ‘The Street, OX1 1HP - 12pm to 1.30pm Osney Mill, Mill Street, OX2 0AN - Oxford English Dictionary’. Advanced Tour A regular and popular choice in 11am Tour Visit the restored mill & booking required. D, R the Open Doors calendar. The award- marina, the remains of Osney Abbey winning contemporary architecture, built in 1410 and the Archimedes beautiful gardens and fascinating site Screw that powers the site. Advanced history make this a tour not be missed booking required. D (no booking required). D, R Enter40 the draw... 40see page 5 4 BODLEIAN LAW LIBRARY Check for new listings and changes for the weekend on our website

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Oxford Castle Unlocked, Oxford Saturday Castle Quarter, New Road, OX1 8 Generations of an Oxford 1AY – 9am to 11am Experience 9 SEPT the rich history of Oxford Castle via guided tours. Climb the Saxon Family Business St George’s Tower, descend to the Norman Crypt and explore the original cells. OPT members free In the morning... entry all day! (D), FF, R Come and visit us for Oxford Open Doors Andrew Wiles Building, Mathematical on Saturday 9th September 9.30am to 5.30pm Institute, Radcliffe ObservatoryOxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, & Sunday 10th September 10am to 4pm. Quarter, Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG – OX1 2LW – 10am to 12 noon Tours, 9am to 1pm One of Oxford's newest and including backstage and the newly most impressive buildings, a beguiling refurbished auditorium. Learn about blend of architecture and mathematics. D the theatre's history and see how a show is staged. Advanced booking Bodleian Law Library, Manor Road, required. (D), FF, R OX1 3UR – 11am Tour The largest law library in the UK, housed in a landmark Radcliffe Primary Care Building, building by Leslie Martin and Colin St Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, John Wilson, completed in 1964, Grade Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG – II* listed. Advance booking required. D 10am to 1pm Formerly the Radcliffe Infirmary Outpatients Building, Botnar Research Centre, Nuffield discover the blend of new and original Department of Orthopaedics, features through self-guided tours. D, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal FF, R Sciences, Windmill Road, OX3 7LD – 10am to 1pm Provides world-class Sir William Dunn School of facilities for scientists in the field of Pathology, South Parks Road, musculoskeletal research. Lab tours OX1 3RE – 10.30am & 11.30am showcasing current research at 10.15am, Presentation and tour showing 11am, 11.40am & 12.20pm. D historical displays on the department’s pioneering medical research, especially Joinery, The Malthouse, Tidmarsh in the development of Penicillin. Lane, OX1 1NQ 10am to 1pm Meet Advanced booking required. D, FF www.payneandson.co.uk the Estates Services joiners, a highly

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University Church of St Mary the Magdalen College, High Street, Wander around the campus and visit Virgin, High Street, OX1 4BJ – 10am OX1 4AU – 12 noon to 7pm Visit our award-winning café. D, FF, R to 1pm See the original University the magnificent gardens, Deer Park, Library dating from 1320. Spectacular Addison Walk (riverside walk), Chapel Said Business School, Park End Street, views of Radcliffe Square. Church and Hall of this famous Oxford College OX1 1HP – 12 noon to 1.30pm Tour tours. 12 noon to 1pm Creative writing founded in 1458. 12 noon Bells ring The award-winning contemporary workshop. (D), FF out from the tower. 3pm Organ recital. architecture, beautiful gardens and 6pm Choral Evening Prayer. (D), FF, R fascinating site history make this a tour Wadham College, Parks Road, OX1 not be missed. D, FF 3PN – 9am to 1pm Built in 1610-13 Nuffield College, New Road, OX1 by master mason, William Arnold, visit 1NF – 12 noon to 4pm Celebrating our Soha Housing at The New Marston the Chapel and Gardens. D, FF 80th anniversary, explore our Grade II Pastoral Centre, Jack Straws Lane, listed Cotswold style buildings, John OX3 0DL – 1pm & 3.30pm Talk on Piper designed Chapel, Tower Room, the history of social housing in Oxford In the Afternoon... and book to see our outstanding and optional opportunity to visit a Alliance Française d’Oxford, St contemporary art collection and nearby home to see what living in Margaret’s Institute, 1st Floor, 30 College silver (artcommitte@nuffield. social housing means today. Advanced Polstead Road, OX2 6TN – 12 noon to ox.ac.uk). (D), FF, R booking required. 4pm Visit our welcoming classrooms, st benet's hall St Giles’ Church, Woodstock Road, meet our friendly teachers while Osney Lock Hydro, East Street, OX2 OX2 6HT – 12 noon to 6pm In 2020 tasting some French wine & cheese. 0AX – 1pm to 4pm 30-minute guided breakthroughs commemorated by blue St Giles' Church will celebrate its Test your level and find the way to learn tour of the first community-owned plaques outside the laboratory, and 900th Anniversary. Plans are being French that best suits you. Activities for hydro to be built and operating on the techniques used today to uncover the drawn up...come along and find out children. FF, R Thames. Advanced booking required. hidden world of molecules. Advanced more. (D), FF booking required. (D), FF, R Balliol Historic Collections Centre, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road, OX3 0EE – 2pm to St Sepulchre’s Cemetery, 80 Walton St Cross Church, Manor Road, OX1 Holywell Cemetery, St Cross Road, 4pm This beautiful building blends Street, OX2 6EA – 2pm to 4pm Award 3UH – 12 noon to 4pm Ancient church OX1 3LZ – 2pm to 5pm Tours pointing architectural features of traditional winning hidden place providing a tranquil restored & converted in 2010 to house out graves of interest and evidence of Oxford Colleges with forms and green space. Self-guided sheets showing 8 centuries of Balliol College’s archives. wildlife. Complimentary leaflets and styles of the classical period of Islam. memorials of local notables. (D), FF Display boards and leaflet for self-guided weather permitting, harp music and 30 minute tours. Advanced booking tour, staff to answer questions, exhibition book stall. 3pm to 4pm Join Geologists St Thomas the Martyr, between Becket required (www.oxcis.ox.ac.uk). D of medieval manuscripts. D, FF Nina Morgan and Philip Powell on Street & St Thomas Street, OX1 guided geological walks. (D), FF 1PP – 2pm to 4pm Mother church Department of Chemistry, South Parks Ruskin College, Dunstan Road, Old Headington, OX3 9BZ – 12 noon to of West Oxford under the patronage Road, OX1 3QR – 2pm to 4pm Discover Museum of the History of Science, 6pm (last entry 5.30pm) Founded in of St Thomas Becket, Archbishop of the magnificent Abbot's Kitchen, one Broad Street, OX1 3AZ – 12 noon to 1899, providing university-standard Canterbury, martyred in 1170. Guided of the first purpose-built Chemistry 5pm (D) laboratories. Learn about important education for working class people.

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walk from St Thomas to St Barnabas by to 1279. One of very few academic Oxfordshire - and maybe appear on air Campion Hall, Brewer Street, OX1 Mark Davies 2.30pm to 4pm (advanced halls where any substantial structural yourself! Advanced booking required. 1QS – 10am to 12 noon & 2pm to booking required for walk). FF remains survive. FF D, FF 4pm The Jesuit Hall of the University. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with University of Oxford Community Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Blackwell’s Bookshop, 48-51 Broad many fine architectural features Fair, Barton Neighbourhood Centre, Street, OX1 2PH – 10am to 5pm Street, OX1 3BQ – 11am to 4pm Tours including the main Chapel and Library. Underhill Circus, Headington, Between 11am & 12 noon meet A short tour through the bookshop. Regular tours between these times. FF OX3 9LS – 1pm to 4pm Visit the volunteer guides in Gallery 21. Travel Gain an exclusive insight into 138 years University’s Community Fair to find through time and across continents on of Blackwell’s. See the “Gaffer’s Office”- Christ Church, St Aldates, OX1 out about the range of events, talks and a Highlights tour. Between 11.30am & the beautiful Edwardian-style office 1DP – 10am to 3pm Tours Guided activities open to everyone throughout 3.30pm handle historical coins from used by Sir Basil Blackwell. Advanced tours exploring hidden spaces and the year – many for free - from badger different times and places. D, FF, R booking required. D, FF extraordinary treasures that lie behind watching and science talks to family closed doors. Advanced booking activities and community research Bartlemas Chapel, (lane alongside Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, required (www.chch.ox.ac.uk) FF projects. Information stands, talks and 271) Cowley Road, OX4 2AJ – 10am Broad Street, OX1 3BG – 9am to 5pm hands-on activities. D, FF to 5pm This Grade I listed 14th century (10am for exhibition galleries & shop) City of Oxford Silver Band, Oxford Chapel was originally part of the Exhibition – Oxford: Photographs by Castle Quarter, New Road OX1 1AY earlier St Bartholomew’s leper hospital Martin Parr. This exhibition shows – 10am to 4pm (Performances at 12 founded by Henry I 1126 AD. (no car behind the scenes at Oxford University. noon & 1.15pm) Oxford’s oldest brass All Day... access up the lane) FF Part of the ‘Poetics of Secrecy’ band. History displays, musical games, A-Plan Insurance Oxford, 107 High photography festival. D, FF, R demonstrations of instruments and the Street, OX1 4DA – 8am to 2pm BBC Oxford, 269 Banbury Road, OX2 chance to have-a-go! D, FF, R Discover what lurks beneath this 7DW – 9am to 2.30pm Tours Visit Blavatnik School of Government, unassuming Insurance Brokerage – BBC Radio Oxford and South Today Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, OX2 Cohen Quad, Walton Street, OX1 previously Tackleys Inn dating back TV news to see how we broadcast to 6GG (entrance on Walton Street) – 2HD – 10am to 4pm Opened in 10am to 3pm Designed by Herzog January 2017, this exciting new RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY and de Meuron. Discover the stunning development behind the original open Inamori Forum and enjoy the 1913 façade provides a wealth of roof terrace. Self-guided tours and pre- architectural beauty. D, FF booked short talks. Learn about our work to support better government and Commonwealth War Graves public policy around the world. Café Cemetery, North Hinksey Lane, open. Advanced booking required for Botley, OX2 0LX – 10am to 6pm Laid talks (www.bsg.ox.ac.uk). D, FF, R out precisely as are its cemeteries in Northern France and wherever battles Bibliographical Press in the Old Bodleian were fought in the two World Wars. D Library, Broad Street, OX1 3BG – 10am to 3pm See the historic presses and type, Conduit House, North Hinksey, OX2 with demonstrations. D, FF 9AS – 10am to 4pm Built in 1617 to

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take clean water from the springs at Harris Manchester College Chapel, 1.30pm). The library in the former All Nuneham Park, Nuneham Courtenay, North Hinksey to the Carfax Conduit, Mansfield Road, OX1 3TD – 11am to Saints Church is open from 11am to OX44 9PG – 10am to 5pm Visit the a fountain in the city centre. Located off 4pm Described as a "Pre-Raphaelite 3pm. John Wesley Room viewings by Church and Gardens within the Capability track leading from Harcourt Hill. FF Jewel". The stained-glass windows request (Access issues). (D), FF Brown designed landscape, with rare designed by Edward Burne-Jones and opportunity to walk to the 400 year old d’Overbroeck’s Sixth Form, 333 made by the firm of William Morris Lucy Group Ltd, Eagle Works, Walton Carfax Conduit, formerly in Oxford. Banbury Road, OX2 7LS – 10am to are exquisite. Discovery trail: "Hunt Well Road, OX2 6EE – 10am to 4pm 4pm Built in 1823 in the Italianate style, the Hidden Animals" for younger Enjoy the canal-side piazza on the Old County Hall, Oxfordshire County the Villa can now be viewed alongside visitors. D, FF site of Lucy's Foundry, photographic Council, New Road, OX1 1ND – 11am the 21st Century architecture of the exhibition and display of archive to 4pm See the Old Court Rooms with new buildings. See how the two have HMG Law, 126 High Street, OX1 material on W Lucy & Co Ltd, based its grim tunnel to Oxford Prison. Tours been cleverly linked to form a modern 4DG – 10am to 2pm Dating from the in the city for over 200 years. D, FF, R every hour from 11.30am. Tea, coffee educational space. D, FF, R 15th century, see the rare Elizabethan and homemade cakes. See the Guiness wall paintings. (D), FF Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, World Record holder, Medieval Mosaic Examination Schools, 75-81 High OX1 3TF – 10.30am to 4.30pm The exhibition. (D), FF, R Street, OX1 4BG – 10am to 4pm (last Hogacre Common Eco Park, Chapel is a wonderful expression of entry 3.30pm) A rare opportunity to Whitehouse Road, OX1 4QH – high Victorian architecture, stained Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, OX1 explore behind closed doors. Self-guided 11am to 5pm An ecological haven in glass, statuary & wood carving. Organ 2AQ – 11am to 6pm Explore the Photo tours or book onto a guided tour to see the Thames Floodplain comprising recital at 2.30pm by the College Oxford exhibition in the gallery. D, R additional areas and learn more about meadow, trees, OxGrow Community Rector of Music, John Oxlade. Café the architecture, history and uses of this garden, bee hives, orchard, forest open. D, FF, R Old Radcliffe Infirmary, Radcliffe beautiful venue. Advanced booking school area and former sports Observatory Quarter, Woodstock required for guided tours. D, FF pavilion. FF Meet the Military: A Company, Road, OX2 6GG – 10am to 3pm 7 Rifles, Old County Hall, New Visit the refurbished Old Radcliffe First Church of Christ, Scientist, 36a Inner Space, 21 Broad Street, OX1 Road, OX1 1ND – 10am to 3pm Infirmary (opened in 1770), now home St Giles, OX1 3LD – 10am to 4pm 3AS – 10am to 5.30pm A meditation Visit the Rifles display; meet Regular to Radcliffe Humanities, including Enter the gates to see a pretty courtyard space in a beautifully renovated historic and Reserve soldiers, Regimental TORCH – The Oxford Research garden. Pass the Reading Room building. Free activities and house Musicians, Cadets and Veterans and Centre in the Humanities. Self-guided pavilion and enter this modern church, tours with information on previous opportunity to see an extensive range tours and information about TORCH sit in the light, airy, sanctuary and visit tenants. of kit and equipment and find out more research. D, FF the smaller Sunday School. (D), FF about Oxford’s military heritage. D, FF The Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington, Oxford Archaeology, Key Learning Frewin Hall, St Michael’s Street, OX1 OX3 8JD – 10am to 4.30pm Home of Merton College, Merton Street, OX1 Centre, Oxford Castle Unlocked, OX1 2EB – 10am to 3pm An Augustinian author C.S. Lewis, fully restored to the 4JD -10am to 5pm (last entry 4.30pm) 1AY – 10am to 4pm Discover how Priory in 1430, a poor house for period 1933-1967 when he lived here. FF Tour the 4 main quads, including archaeologists reveal what is hidden Oxford City in 1560, a place of study Mob Quad, the oldest in Oxford; the below your feet in Oxford. See our for Prince of Wales, Edward VII, in Lincoln College, Turl Street, OX1 3DR Chapel, which dates to the end of the survey work, get close up to our latest 1859 and Brasenose undergraduate – 11am to 5pm See the beautiful front 13th century; and the beautiful award- finds and learn about our latest projects. accommodation since 1946. (D), FF and chapel quads, chapel and dining winning gardens. (D), FF Displays and fun activities. D, FF room (closed during lunch 12 noon to

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Oxford Bus Museum (Broad Street, Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Oxford University Real Tennis Club, OX1 3BH) – 10am to 3.30pm Free Giles, OX1 3LW – 10am to 4pm Home Merton Street, OX1 4JD – 11am to vintage bus rides. For timetables & bus to the Religious Society of Friends 3pm Demonstrations of the sport stops see www.oxfordbusmuseum.org. (Quakers) and host to many local on the hour, the ancestor of modern uk (Museum at Long Hanborough not community groups. Bring a picnic to tennis, at the second oldest court in open on the day). FF eat in the lovely gardens. Exhibition on the world. FF Henry Gillett and Harry Waddle. D, FF Oxford Castle Mound, Oxford Castle Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, Quarter, New Road, OX1 1AY – 10am Oxford Town Hall & Museum of Oxford, Rewley Road Fire Station, OX1 2EH to 5pm Climb the mound of the 11th St Aldates, OX1 1BX - 11am to 4pm (last – 10am to 4pm Demonstrations, century motte-and-bailey castle and see entry 3.30pm) Visit this Grade II* listed displays, family activities, charity the 13th century well chamber. FF, R Town Hall. Find out about the Oxford store, BBQ, Fire and Rescue Service Hidden Histories project to redevelop history and Fire Safety and Road Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, St the Museum of Oxford galleries! Self- Traffic Collision advice. D, FF, R Philip & St James Church, Woodstock led family trail all day. 11.30am and Road, OX2 6HR – 10am to 4.30pm 2pm Guided Tours including rooms not The Painted Room, 3 Cornmarket, Grade I listed building by architect G.E. normally open, limited tickets available OX1 3EX – 10am to 4pm Visit this Street (1862). Stained glass windows and hidden gem with remarkably well- from the Museum Gift Shop allocated 30 THE PAINTED ROOM interior features of the Anglo-Catholic minutes before tour start time. 11am to preserved Elizabethan wall paintings, Oxford Movement. Tower accessible on 12.30pm Waterloo Rifles Military Band in previously the Crown Tavern request. Refreshments available. D, FF, R concert. D, FF, R with Shakespeare and Betjeman connections. Former offices of Oxford Oxford Deaf and Hard of Hearing Oxford University Museum of Preservation Trust. FF Centre, Littlegate Street, St Ebbe’s, Natural History, South Parks Road, OX1 1RL – 10am to 4pm Visit the OX1 3RF – 10am to 5pm Tour Payne & Son, 131 High St, OX1 4DH Centre’s hidden treasures – our stained- some of our ‘hidden’ spaces, Zoology – 9.30am to 5.30pm 8 generations of a glass window of the healing of a Deaf collections, Geological conservation family business, 128 years in the High man, our Grade II listed Cottage and the and preparation lab and extensive St, exhibits of Payne & Son in Oxford old Friar Gateway. Tours and activities archives. Advanced booking required over the years. D, FF for our 60th Anniversary. (D), FF for tours. (D), FF, R Pegasus Theatre, Magdalen Road, Oxford Oratory, 25 Woodstock Oxford University Parks, South Lodge, OX4 1RE – 10am to 2pm State-of- Road, OX2 6HA – 8am to 7.30pm South Parks Road, OX1 3RF – 11am the-art theatre with young people (Church), 11am to 5pm (Library) Built & 2pm Guided Tours of the Park at its heart. Come and see behind in 1875 with paintings and sculptures highlighting the history and development the scenes! Café and garden open. of 52 saints. Library built in 2013 with of the Parks including information about D, FF, R small exhibition including 18th-19th the plant collection. First come first Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road, Century parish registers and G.K. served. Meet at Keble Gate on Parks OX1 3PP – 10am to 4.30pm D, FF Chesterton memorabilia. D Road. (D), FF CITY OF OXFORD SILVER BAND

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Radcliffe Observatory Tower, Green young people to the University of establishment for University students St Luke’s Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Templeton College, Woodstock Oxford. Completed in 1928 and through a photo exhibition and guided Quarter, Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG Road, OX2 6HG – 10am to 3.30pm designed by Sir Herbert Baker. D, FF, R tours. (D), R – 9.30am to 4pm (last entry 3.45pm) Situated in the beautiful grounds of See how this Grade I listed Chapel Green Templeton College, the Tower St Alban the Martyr, Charles Street, St Francis, Hollow Way, Cowley, OX3 has been beautifully restored by the served as an observatory from 1773 until OX4 3AU – 10am to 6pm A 20th 7JE – 10am to 5pm Opened in 1931 on Estates Services Department of Oxford 1934. The external decoration is based on century gem. Door carving of angels land donated by Lord Nuffield. Unique University. D, FF the ‘Temple of Winds’ in Athens and the by John Henry Brookes; Stations of the painted beams depicting scenes from views from its upper room are unique. FF Cross by Eric Gill. D the life of St Francis & hanging cross. St Margaret of Antioch Church, William Morris trail available. D, FF, R Binsey, OX2 0NG – 9am to 5pm Radcliffe Science Library, Parks St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, Grade I listed 12th century church, Road, OX1 3QP – 10am to 1.45pm OX2 6HS – 11am to 4pm Explore the St Frideswide Church, Botley Road, home to the Treacle Well as celebrated (last entry 1.30pm) Primary science new Library and Academic Centre, OX2 0BL – 10am to 4pm Grade II* in Alice in Wonderland. D, FF library for the University of Oxford, opened in January 2017. Designed by listed building which contains the 'Alice in a Grade II listed building with Fletcher Priest Architects, the building Door': a wooden door carved by Alice St Mary the Virgin, Church Way, architecture by Thomas Graham includes access to a new roof garden Liddell (aka Alice in Wonderland). D, FF Iffley, OX4 4EJ – 11am to 5pm Start Jackson and Hubert Worthington. revealing previously hidden views of the your visit in the Church Hall, explore St Hugh’s College, St Margaret’s Road, Displays from the collections and 3D Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. D, FF the 12th Century church famous for OX2 6LE – 10am to 4pm Opened in printing demonstrations. (D) its Romanesque architecture and St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock 1886 to offer an Oxford University churchyard with its ancient yew tree. Regent’s Park College, Pusey Street, Road, OX2 6JF – 11am to 3pm See the education to women. Tranquil 14-acre See the Church’s preservation work OX1 2LB – 11am & 1pm Guided 1 iconic Investcorp Building, designed by site, lovely gardens, Chapel and Dining in progress, and enjoy a picnic in the hour tour and exhibition of items rarely internationally renowned architect Zaha Hall. Self-guided tour leaflets available Glebe Field. (D), FF, R seen, including letters, manuscripts Hadid, and the Hilda Besse Building, Grade from the Porter’s Lodge. D, FF and printed works from the 1400’s. II listed, by the practice HKPA. (D), FF St Mary and St John Church, Cowley St James the Apostle Church, Advanced booking required. FF Road, OX4 1UR – 10am to 6pm St Barnabas, St Barnabas Street, OX2 Beauchamp Lane, Cowley, OX4 3LF Notable Victorian Church whose first ‘Revealing Hidden Oxford’ Display, 6BG – 10am to 5pm The tall, Venetian – 10am to 5pm Early Norman church. Vicar was Father Benson (blue plaque The Proscholium to the Old Bodleian bell-tower is visible from various Former garrison church of the Oxford on St Stephen's House, Marston Street). Library, Old Schools Quad, Catte corners of the city. Guided walk from St & Bucks Light Infantry. Early scratch Tower tours. (D), FF, R Street, OX1 3BG – 9am to 4.30pm Thomas to St Barnabas in Jericho with sundials, Saxon font, fine organ rescued Hidden from view for decades, find Mark Davies 2.30pm to 4pm (advanced from St Martin’s Church at Carfax. Talks St Matthew’s Church, Marlborough out more about Oxford City Council’s booking required for walk). D, FF & tour at 12 noon & 3pm. William Road, Oxford, OX1 4LW – 10am archive of City Engineer’s plans. Morris trail available. D, FF, R to 4pm Dedicated in 1890. The loss St Benet’s Hall, 38 St Giles, OX1 3LN of 66 Men of Grandpont in WWI is Rhodes House, South Parks Road, – 10am to 3pm One of the smallest St John the Evangelist, Vicarage Road, commemorated. Free performance of OX1 3RG – 10am to 4pm Grade II halls of the University of Oxford and OX1 4RE – 10am to 5pm Discover Haydn's "Creation" at 7pm (donations listed home of the Rhodes Trust which celebrating its 120th anniversary. Learn Oxford’s hidden Ninian Comper gem. welcome). D, FF, R offers Scholarships to exceptional about our history as a Benedictine D, FF, R

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St Michael at the North Gate, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, Wadham College, Parks Road, OX1 Cornmarket, OX1 3EY – 10.30am New Inn Hall Street, OX1 2DH – 3PN – 9am to 1pm Built in 1610-13 by to 5pm Visit Oxford’s ancient City 10am to 5.30pm As you have never master mason, William Arnold, visit Church and climb the Saxon Tower for seen it before; newly refurbished rooms, the Chapel and Gardens. D, FF wonderful views. (D), FF unexpected hidden views, new stained glass but the same warm welcome. Sunday Stanford University Centre in Oxford, Children’s activities, refreshments, all 65 High Street, OX1 4EL – 11am In the Afternoon... age trail and musical interludes. D, FF, R All Souls College, High Street, OX1 4AL to 4pm Six historic houses, recently 10 SEPT – 2pm to 5pm Chapel, Great Quad, Front refurbished and extended by Berman Wolfson College, Linton Road, OX2 Quad, Hall, Buttery, and Codrington Guedes Stretton. See the Garden 6UD – 11am to 4.30pm Stroll in the Library. The Oxford Cherwell Brass Band Room and recently replanted gardens. secluded riverside gardens of the College will perform. (D), FF Advanced booking required. (D), FF designed by Powell and Moya. (D), FF In the morning... Balliol Historic Collections Centre, Taylor Institution Library, St Giles, Campion Hall, Brewer Street, OX1 St Cross Church, Manor Road, OX1 OX1 3NA – 10am to 3.30pm Beautiful 1QS – 10am to 12 noon The Jesuit Walks... 3UH – 12 noon to 4pm Ancient church 19th Century library, designed by Hall of the University. Designed by City Walls Walk – 11am Discover the restored & converted in 2010 to house architect C.R. Cockerell and dedicated Sir Edwin Lutyens with many fine city walls that are still standing and eight centuries of Balliol College’s to the study of Modern European architectural features including the hidden beneath your feet with Julian archives. Display boards and leaflet Languages. Half - hourly tours including main Chapel and Library. Regular Munby, Oxford Archaeology’s Head of for self-guided tour, staff to answer Reformation exhibition. Advanced tours between these times. FF Buildings Archaeology. questions and exhibition of medieval booking required. (D) manuscripts. D, FF Port Meadow, Wolvercote – Oxford’s Oxford Castle Unlocked, Oxford University of Oxford Harcourt Castle Quarter, New Road, OX1 lost aerodrome 11am & 2pm One Blackwell’s Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Arboretum, Nuneham Courtenay, OX44 1AY – 9am to 11am Experience hour walks explaining the aviation Street, OX1 3BQ – 12 noon to 4pm 9PX – 10am to 5pm Containing the best the rich history of Oxford Castle history from 1911, including WWI. Tours A short tour through the collection of trees in Oxfordshire with via guided tours. Climb the Saxon bookshop. Gain an exclusive insight into some of the oldest redwoods in the UK. Old field-names of Blackbird Leys St George’s Tower, descend to the 138 years of Blackwell’s. See the “Gaffer’s – 2pm Katie Hambrook reveals Norman Crypt and explore the Office” - the beautiful Edwardian- University College, High Street, OX1 the hidden medieval landscapes of original cells. OPT members free style office used by Sir Basil Blackwell. 4BH – 10am to 4pm See our beautiful Blackbird Leys. entry all day! (D), FF, R 17th century chapel. Special tours of Advanced booking required. D, FF Univ’s splendid Victorian Library where From St Thomas to St Barnabas – Regimental Chapel of the Oxfordshire First Church of Christ, Scientist, 36a items not usually on public display will 2.30pm A 90 minute literary and & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, St Giles, OX1 3LD – 12 noon to 4pm be exhibited. Exclusive tours around historical walk with local historian Christ Church Cathedral, St Aldates, Enter the gates to see a pretty courtyard the Gardens, not normally open to Mark Davies through the parish of OX1 1DP – 10. 30am A guided tour of garden. Pass the Reading Room the public. Refreshments. Advanced Oxford’s former working boat families. the Regimental Chapel by The Soldiers pavilion and enter this modern church, booking required for Library tours. (D), of Oxfordshire Museum. Visit www. Advanced booking required sit in the light, airy, sanctuary and visit FF, R chch.ox.ac.uk for more details. (D) for all walks. the smaller Sunday School. (D), FF

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The Hill End Centre, Eynsham Road, 4pm Stroll through the beautiful gardens, Pembroke College JCR Art Gallery, 5 the 12th Century church famous for its OX2 9NJ – 2pm Tour A 67 acre site used crossing the white Chinese bridges. Brewer Street, OX1 1QN – 12 noon to Romanesque architecture and churchyard by schools and groups since the 1920s. Information and history available. D, FF, R 3pm The first Oxford College to establish with its ancient yew tree. See the Church’s Enjoy a walk and see buildings, flora and a student-owned art collection. Works by preservation work in progress and enjoy a fauna. Advanced booking required. FF, R Museum of the History of Science, renowned artists alongside up and coming picnic in the Glebe Field. (D), FF, R Broad Street, OX1 3AZ – 12 noon to young artists. D, FF Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Road, 5pm (D) St Mary and St John Church, Cowley Headington Quarry, OX3 8LH – 12 noon Ruskin College, Dunstan Road, Old Road, OX4 1UR – 12 noon to 4pm to 5pm Explore Gilbert Scott's Victorian Oxford Archaeology, Key Learning Headington, OX3 9BZ – 12 noon to 6pm Notable Victorian Church whose first “village” church and its associations with C Centre, Oxford Castle Unlocked, OX1 (last entry 5.30pm) Founded in 1899, Vicar was Father Benson (blue plaque S Lewis. Notable graves in the churchyard 1AY – 12 noon to 4pm Discover how providing university-standard education on St Stephen's House, Marston Street). include Lewis, William Kimber (father archaeologists reveal what is hidden for working class people. Wander around Tower tours. (D), FF, R of English Morris) and Robert Doyne below your feet in Oxford. See our the campus and visit our award-winning (founder of Oxford Eye Hospital). (D), R survey work, get close up to our latest café. D, FF, R St Matthew’s Church, Marlborough finds and learn about our latest projects. Road, Oxford, OX1 4LW – 12 Holywell Cemetery, St Cross Road, Displays and fun activities. D, FF St Cross College & Pusey House, noon to 4pm Dedicated by Bishop OX1 3LZ – 2pm to 5pm Tours St Giles, OX1 3LZ – 2pm to 4pm William Stubbs in 1890. The loss of pointing out graves of interest and Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 45 minute tours of the College’s art 66 Men of Grandpont in WWI is evidence of wildlife. Complimentary Marston Road, OX3 0EE – 2pm to collection and Pusey House’s Chapel & commemorated. D, FF leaflets and weather permitting, a book 4pm This beautiful building blends Library. Advanced booking required. FF stall. 3pm to 4pm Join Geologists Nina architectural features of traditional St Michael at the North Gate, Morgan and Philip Powell on guided Oxford Colleges with forms and St Edmund Hall, Queens Lane, Oxford, Cornmarket, OX1 3EY – 12 noon geological walks. (D), FF styles of the classical period of Islam. OX1 4AR – 12 noon to 4pm The first to 3.30pm Visit Oxford’s ancient 30 minute tours. Advanced booking reference to the hall was recorded in City Church and climb the Saxon LMS Swingbridge, Rewley Road, OX1 required (www.oxcis.ox.ac.uk). D 1317. View the College Library, the Old Tower for wonderful views. To mark 2RQ – 1pm to 3pm Learn about Oxford Dining Hall (1652) and Chapel (1680). 500 years since the Reformation, Preservation Trust’s exciting plans for this Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Churchyard & Gardens open. (D), FF the Choir is singing one of Bach’s unique & nationally important (c.1851) Giles, OX1 3LW – 1.30pm to 4.30pm Cantatas at 4pm. (D), FF hand-turned railway swingbridge. Home to the Religious Society of St Giles’ Church, Woodstock Road, Friends (Quakers) and host to many OX2 6HT – 12 noon to 4pm In 2020 St Stephen’s House/St John the Magdalen College, High Street, local community groups. Bring a St Giles' Church will celebrate its 900th Evangelist Church, 109a Iffley OX1 4AU – 12 noon to 7pm Visit the picnic to eat in the lovely gardens. Anniversary. Plans are being drawn Road, OX4 1EH – 2pm to 6pm magnificent gardens, Deer Park, Addison Exhibition on Henry Gillett and Harry up...come along and find out more. This permanent private hall of the Walk (riverside walk), Chapel and Hall of Waddle. D, FF Organ recital at 12.30pm and a guided University of Oxford welcomes you this famous Oxford College founded in tour at 3pm. (D), FF to its magnificent neo-Gothic Grade I 1458. 12 noon Bells ring out from the Oxford Synagogue, Richmond Road, listed church (used as a concert venue Tower 3pm Organ recital. (D), FF, R OX1 2JL – 2pm to 5.30pm Ground St Mary the Virgin, Church Way, for SJE Arts), together with its cloister, floor of centre,tours and explanations Iffley, OX4 4EJ – 1pm to 5pm Start accessed from the Iffley Road. (D), FF Magdalen College School Gardens, in the sanctuary, display about Judaism your visit in the Church Hall, explore Cowley Place, OX4 1DZ – 12 noon to and Oxford’s Jewish Heritage. D, FF

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St Thomas the Martyr, between Becket BBC Oxford, 269 Banbury Road, OX2 Hogacre Common Eco Park, Street & St Thomas Street, OX1 1PP 7DW – 9am to 2.30pm Tours Visit BBC Whitehouse Road, OX1 4QH – 11am to – 2pm to 4pm Mother church of West Radio Oxford and South Today TV news 5pm An ecological haven in the Thames Oxford under the patronage of St Thomas to see how we broadcast to Oxfordshire - Floodplain comprising meadow, trees, Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. Guided and maybe even appear on air yourself! OxGrow Community garden, bee hives, walk from St Thomas to St Barnabas by Advanced booking required. D, FF orchard, forest school area and former Mark Davies 2.30pm to 4pm (advanced sports pavilion with cafe. FF, R booking required for walks). FF Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, Broad Street, OX1 3BG – 11am to Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road, Wytham Woods, The Sawmill Office, 5pm Exhibition – Oxford: Photographs OX2 6PN – 11am to 2pm The University Wytham, OX2 8QQ – 2pm A 2-hour by Martin Parr. This exhibition shows of Oxford’s largest and most international walk discussing the 75 years of research behind the scenes at Oxford University. graduate college. See the Kellogg College and history of the most studied woodland Part of the ‘Poetics of Secrecy’ Hub, the first building in the University in the world. No dogs allowed. (D), FF photography festival. D, FF, R to use the environmentally friendly Passivhaus design. D, FF, R Carfax Tower, Queen Street, OX1 1ES – 10.30am to 4.30pm Climb 99 steps Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens, All Day... to the top of the tower to get a bird’s eye OX2 6QA – 11am to 5pm Where EXETER - FELLOW'S GARDEN ‘A day with Miss Austen’, Bodleian view of Oxford’s ‘Dreaming Spires’. FF women's education at Oxford began in Library, Broad Street, OX1 3BG 1878. Enjoy the gardens, chapel, Dining (Chancellor’s Court, Convocation House Cohen Quad, Walton Street, OX1 Exeter College, Turl Street, OX1 3DP Hall, new quadrangle and entrance & Blackwell Hall) – 11am to 4pm Step 2HD – 10am to 4pm Opened in – 10am to 4pm Chapel and rarely-open buildings. Library open with exhibition back in time to Regency Oxford to mingle January 2017, this exciting new Fellows’ Garden. Sit in the 17th Century on literary treasures. D, FF, R with Jane Austen and her companions at development behind the original Dining Hall. See where filming for Dr the Bodleian Libraries. D, FF 1913 façade provides a wealth of Strange and Endeavour took place. Lincoln College, Turl Street, OX1 3DR architectural beauty. D, FF 3.30pm Performance by Vox Chamber – 11am to 5pm See the beautiful front Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Choir in Chapel. (D), FF, R and chapel quads, chapel and dining OX1 2PH – 10am to 5pm D, FF, R Commonwealth War Graves room (closed during lunch 12 noon to Cemetery, North Hinksey Lane, Frewin Hall, St Michael’s Street, OX1 1.30pm). The library in the former All Balliol College, Broad Street, OX1 Botley, OX2 0LX – 10am to 6pm Laid 2EB – 10am to 3pm An Augustinian Saints Church is open from 11am to 3pm 3BJ – 10am to 4pm Visit the splendid out precisely as are its cemeteries in Priory in 1430, a poor house for each day. John Wesley Room viewings by gardens, Hall and Chapel. (D), FF Northern France and wherever battles Oxford City in 1560, a place of study request (Access issues). (D), FF were fought in the two World Wars. D for Prince of Wales, Edward VII, in Bartlemas Chapel, (lane alongside 1859 and Brasenose undergraduate Merton College, Merton Street, OX1 271) Cowley Road, OX4 2AJ – 10am Divinity School in the Old Bodleian accommodation since 1946. (D), FF 4JD – 10am to 5pm (last entry 4.30pm) to 5pm This Grade I listed 14th century Library, Broad Street, OX1 3BG – Tour the 4 main quads, including Chapel was originally part of the 11am to 5pm A magnificent piece of HMG Law, 126 High Street, OX1 Mob Quad, the oldest in Oxford; the earlier St Bartholomew’s leper hospital gothic architecture. The first teaching 4DG – 10am to 2pm Dating from the Chapel, which dates to the end of the founded by Henry I 1126 AD. (no car room and earliest examination hall of 15th century, see the rare Elizabethan 13th century; and the beautiful award- access up the lane) FF the University of Oxford. D, FF wall paintings. (D), FF winning gardens. (D), FF

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Old County Hall, Oxfordshire County Oxford Town Hall & Museum of Payne & Son, 131 High St, OX1 4DH Council, New Road, OX1 1ND – 11am Oxford, St Aldates, OX1 1BX – 11am – 11am to 4pm 8 generations of a to 4pm See the Old Court Rooms with to 4pm (last entry 3.30pm) Visit this family business, 128 years in the High its grim tunnel to Oxford Prison. Tours Grade II* listed Town Hall. Find out St, exhibits of Payne & Son in Oxford every hour from 11.30am. Tea, coffee and about the Oxford Hidden Histories over the years. D, FF homemade cakes. See the Guiness World project to redevelop the Museum of Record holder, Medieval Mosaic exhibition. Oxford galleries! Self-led family trail all Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road, Classic Cars on display too. (D), FF, R day. 11.30am and 2pm Guided tours OX1 3PP – 10am to 4.30pm D, FF to see rooms not normally open, limited Radcliffe Observatory Tower, Green Oriel College, Oriel Square, OX1 tickets available from the Museum Gift Templeton College, Woodstock Road, 4EW – 10am to 3pm The oldest royal Shop allocated 30 minutes before tour OX2 6HG – 10am to 3.30pm Situated foundation in Oxford. See our wonderful start time. D, FF, R hall with the largest oil painting of the in the beautiful grounds of Green Queen (our visitor). Stroll around first, Oxford University Museum of Templeton College, the Tower served second, third Quad while enjoying the Natural History, South Parks Road, as an observatory from 1773 until 1934. The external decoration is based on the varying architectural styles. (D), FF OX1 3PW – 10am to 5pm (D), FF, R TRINITY COLLEGE - DURHAM QUAD ‘Temple of Winds’ in Athens and the Oxford Castle Mound, Oxford Castle Oxford University Parks, South Lodge, views from its upper room are unique. FF Quarter, New Road, OX1 1AY – 10am South Parks Road, OX1 3RF – 11am & displays celebrating Somerville’s “hidden” to 4pm Climb the mound of the 11th 2pm Guided tours highlighting its history ‘Revealing Hidden Oxford’ Display, women who have made significant century motte-and-bailey castle and see and development including the plant The Proscholium to the Old Bodleian impacts throughout the world. Walking the 13th century well chamber. Classic collection. First come first served. Meet at Library, Old Schools Quad, Catte around our beautiful grounds will reveal cars in the Castle Courtyard all day. FF, R Keble Gate on Parks Road. (D), FF Street, OX1 3BG – 11am to 5pm some hidden gems. (D), FF, R Hidden from view for decades, find Oxford Deaf and Hard of Hearing Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, out more about Oxford City Council’s St Barnabas, St Barnabas Street, OX2 Centre, Littlegate Street, St Ebbe’s, Rewley Road Fire Station, OX1 2EH archive of City Engineer’s plans. 6BG – 10am to 5pm (10.30am Mass) OX1 1RL – 10am to 4pm Visit the – 10am to 4pm Demonstrations, The tall, Venetian bell-tower is visible Centre’s hidden treasures – our stained- displays, family activities, charity store, Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, from various corners of the city. Guided glass window of the healing of a Deaf BBQ, Fire and Rescue Service history OX1 3AZ – 10am to 4pm (last walk from St Thomas to St Barnabas in man, our Grade II listed Cottage and the and Fire Safety and Road Traffic admittance to the cupola at 3.15pm and Jericho with Mark Davies 2.30pm to old Friar Gateway. Tours and activities Collision advice. D, FF, R to the Theatre 3.30pm) For fantastic 4pm (advanced booking required for for our 60th Anniversary. (D), FF views over Oxford visit the University's walk). D, FF The Painted Room, 3 Cornmarket, magnificent Ceremonial Hall, designed by Oxford Oratory, 25 Woodstock Road, OX1 3EX – 10am to 4pm Visit this Sir Christopher Wren. Talks throughout St Hilda’s College, Cowley Place, OX4 OX2 6HA – 7.30am to 7.30pm (Church), hidden gem with remarkably well- the day with classical recital at 4pm by the 1DY – 11am to 4pm (last entry 3.30pm) 12.30pm to 5pm (Library) Built in 1875 preserved Elizabethan wall paintings, Pavlova Wind Quintet. (D), FF Tour of the Kathleen Major Library at with paintings and sculptures of 52 saints. previously the Crown Tavern 11am, 12.30pm and 2pm, or take a self- Library built in 2013 with small exhibition with Shakespeare and Betjeman Somerville College, Woodstock Road, guided tour. Live performances of Gamelan including 18th-19th Century parish registers connections. Former offices of Oxford OX2 6HD – 10am to 4pm Hidden music in the Jacqueline du Pré Music and G.K. Chesterton memorabilia. D Preservation Trust. FF women revealed! Self-guided tour and Building Foyer at 11.30am and 1.15pm. D

3434 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 3535 St Hugh’s College, St Margaret’s Road, Worcester College, Beaumont Street, OX2 6LE – 10am to 4pm Opened in OX1 2LW – 10.30am to 4.30pm One 1886 to offer an Oxford University of Oxford’s best kept secrets. Enjoy the education to women. Tranquil 14-acre tranquil charm of our college, with its site, lovely gardens, Chapel and Dining extensive award-winning gardens and Hall. Self-guided tour leaflets available stunning architecture. (D), FF, R from the Porter’s Lodge. D, FF St John the Evangelist, Vicarage Road, Walks... OX1 4RE – 11.30am to 5pm Discover Medieval Jewish Quarter – 11am Join Oxford’s hidden Ninian Comper gem. historian Pam Manix, for an insight is proud to support D, FF, R into this little-known aspect of Oxford’s Medieval History. D St Margaret of Antioch Church, Oxford Preservation Trust Binsey, OX2 0NG – 9am to 5pm Rewley Road Swingbridge Walk – Grade I listed 12th century church, 11am Insight into the history of the in conserving the best of Oxford’s home to the Treacle Well as celebrated railway & canal industries and future in Alice in Wonderland. D, FF developments around Oxford, including the Swingbridge Restoration Project with past Trinity College, Broad Street, OX1 David Mather (External Development 3BH – 10am to 4pm Rare opportunity Manager in the Railway Industry). to visit Trinity’s Old Library, on its 600th anniversary. See the recently renovated Port Meadow, Wolvercote – Oxford’s 17th century chapel, the dining hall, and lost aerodrome 11am & 2pm Guided extensive gardens. 2.30pm Performance by 1 hour walks explaining the aviation Vox Chamber Choir in the Chapel. (D), R history from 1911, including WWI.

University College, High Street, OX1 From St Thomas to St Barnabas – 4BH – 10am to 4pm Beautiful 17th 2.30pm A 90 minute literary and century chapel. Tours of Univ’s Victorian historical walk with local historian Library where items not usually on Mark Davies through the parish of public display will be exhibited. Tours Oxford’s former working boat families. around the Gardens, not normally open to the public. Advanced booking Advanced booking required required for Library tours. (D), FF, R for all walks.

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